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Make The Holidays Work For Your Business

Tis the season to be jolly. Well, you know the rest. Most everybody will be caught up in the holiday season for the rest of this year. How can you make this work for your home business?

This is a great time of year to run promotions. Consumers will be spending a lot of money and love to find deals. If you can, offer discounts on your products or services. Give your promotion a holiday theme name to help attract searchers.

Everyone loves to win something so you could have a holiday contest. It could be a competition or a drawing and that helps your customers to feel like you are a company that gives back. It also adds a little fun!

Is there a hot product or toy (make sure it is lead free) this year? You could find a way to promote this hot product or you could make it the prize in your contest. Research what is popular right now and somehow incorporate it into your business.

If you are a little creative, you can make the holidays work for your business. Corporate America does, why not you?

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Share Your Work From Home Story And Queries

by KellyBax Baxter 2 Comments

This is the unofficial "Ask Kelly" section. I am interested in learning about our readers. This is a call for as much reader feedback as you can throw at me.

Here are some things that I would like to know:

1) What type of work from home job do you have?

2) How long have you been working from home?

3) Do you have your own business or do you telecommute for an employer?

4) What topics would you like to read about here?

5) Do you have a great work from home story to share?

6) What do you want to know that will help you with your business?

If you ask me to research a particular topic for you, I will! If you have something interesting to share, send me an email with the story and I might share it here. Now please, bombard me with your stories and your interests and let’s get the unofficial "Ask Kelly" section started!

You can comment here and you can also send an email to me at kb@kellfinder.com. Thank you and I very much look forward to hearing from you.

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Make A Squidoo Lens And Be Featured On Shakadoo.com!

by KellyBax Baxter Leave a Comment

Shakadoo is going to start featuring Squidoo lenses! We will feature a new lens every day in one of the shaks. It will be done in an I-frame so your whole lens will show. The cool thing is that it will always be there in the archives and searchable.

If you are an existing lensmaster and you feel that one of your lenses would fit into any of the categories below, then submit it to my group Shakadoo On Squidoo.

Shak In Style: Stylish home interiors your passion?
Shak Hammer: Home improvement your passion?
Love Shak, Baby: Is the family growing? (parenting, kids, moms, dads, etc…)
LoanShak: Money matters your thing?
ShakYard: Got a green thumb?
WorkShak: Working from home?
Shaktronics: Love home electronics?
Shak & Jill: Real Estate

If you have never created a Squidoo lens before, get started now by clicking here: Create You Squidoo Lens On A Shak Subject And You Could Be Featured On Shakadoo! Once you have built your lens, submit it to the group HERE.

For more information and complete details, please click HERE. We hope to see your Squidoo lens on Shakadoo!

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National Work from Home Week

by Miranda Marquit 5 Comments

It seems that just about everything has its own week. The same is true of home business owners. This week has been National Work from Home Week. Well, It’s not really over until Sunday. There are all sorts of formal events happening, and Yvonne Russell over at Home Biz Notes has 2 great ideas for what you can do to celebrate National Work from Home Week:

1. Find home business owners in your area (maybe even plan a party or luncheon)

2. Go online and network with others who work from home

And remember, you don’t have to do this only during National Work from Home Week. These are great ideas that work anytime.

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WorkShak Gearing Up to Participate in Blog Action Day

by Miranda Marquit 1 Comment

One of the great things about technology today, and the Internet, is how you can connect and participate in a variety of events and forums. And this means you can get your work from home business involved as well! One of the cool events in the blogging world is Blog Action Day. The idea is that on Blog Action Day, every participating blog references the same theme. This year’s focus is the environment.

WorkShak will be participating in Blog Action Day, offering tips on how you can make your work from home business more environmentally friendly. Participating can be a great way to get a little more visibility for your home business, and maybe even do a little good in the world.

Visit the Blog Action Day Web site to learn more, and to sign up.

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Happy 5th Blik!

by Sarah C. Leave a Comment

bliksurface graphic turns
5 years old this year. They’re throwing a birthday bash in Venice, CA on August 17 to celebrate, and you’re invited. They’ll have DJs Syrena and RPM, giveaways, an interactive coloring wall, and a live art installation by UNDOBOY. Plus ice cream for everybody.

Any Shakkers in the LA area who want to attend should RSVP to rsvp1@whatisblik.com.

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Sponsored by Giant Robot, Steaz, kiwiberri, Vodka 360, and Peak
Organic Beer.

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Win a Home Office Makeover!

by David Allen 1 Comment

Here is your chance to enter into the competition that could see you winning the top prize of a home office makeover with HGTV’s Vern Yip, Microsoft and HP. The value of this fantastic prize is going to be $25,000! The three finalists each receive a HP Tablet PC with Windows Vista software, Microsoft Office Professional 2007 software, and a one-year subscription to Office Live Premium. The 10 semifinalists each receive Microsoft Office Professional 2007 software.

“What have I got to do?” I can hear you cry. Well what you need to do is:

In 250 words or less describe how a Microsoft Home Office Makeover will create an overall positive change in your personal and/or business life.

Fill in the form here, Microsoft Home Office Makeover.

Details of the Grand Prize:

A home office makeover designed by HGTV’s Vern Yip
HP Compaq tc4400 Tablet PC
HP Photo smart C6180 all in one
HP Color LaserJet 2605dtn
HP Photo smart R967 digital camera
1 ream of HP color LaserJet paper and HP ColorLok inkjet paper
60 sheets 4 x 6 photo paper
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 software
Subscription to Office Live Premium
Microsoft One Care
Zune digital media player

Details [Microsoft]

Entry [Microsoft Home Office Makeover]

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Win a trip to Blogher Conference 07

by David Allen Leave a Comment

Would you like to go the Blogher Conference 07? Well Scrapbook are
holding a competition with a fantastic top prize, where you can win a
trip to BlogHer Conference ‘07! Scrap Blog will pay for your airfare, hotel and conference admission!

Sounds good, would like to know more?

All you need to do is visit the Scrap Blog site,
where it is easy top get started, you simply register, create your
scrap blog, tag it with “blogher07”and publish it, simple isn’t it?

The more views that you get, the more entries you will get into the
Blogher Conference 07 and therefore the more chances that you get to
win!

Source [Blogher]

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The Oprah show is looking for you

by David Allen 2 Comments

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most famous women in the world today, she has built up her business and is now looking for Stay at Home Moms who not only look after the kids and the home, but also are either running or thinking about starting their own business.

What they are looking for is how you manage to split your time between business and home life? What an average day would be like for you? What sort of time split can you manage to spend with the kids against that of working? Have you ever found that the time you have for work and the kids sometimes overlap? Have your kids ever helped out in your business? What about any stories on how the children have interfered in your business, good, bad or funny?

All they need to know is the following:

How many kids do you have?

How old are they?

What is your business?

How long have you been doing it?

What was your inspiration?

What are your goals and dreams for the future?

Interested? Then check out this page, “Be on the Show”

All you need to do is fill in the online form that will get your application speeding off to the Oprah production team.

Source [Oprah.com]

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The 2007 Whirlpool Brand Mother of Invention Grant Contest

by David Allen Leave a Comment

Now that is a long title! Yet it should spark a few ideas into the minds of at least a few Moms out there, who have the ideas but not the money or experience on how to execute them.

The 2007 Whirlpool Brand Mother of Invention Grant Contest is open to mom’s who have an idea, invention, innovation, or service, but who have no idea how to proceed further with it, all they need do is enter using the online form on the WhirlPool website or print off the downloadable entry form and send it by mail to:

2007 Whirlpool Brand Mother of Invention Grant
c/o Trish Taylor
2000 M63 North, MD 4300
Benton Harbor, MI 49022

As for the prizes, I think that you will think that there is enough incentive in them to put your idea down on paper and take a chance.

Grand Prize

$20,000 grant, Whirlpool Duet® or Cabrio™ washer and dryer pair, a Whirlpool Fabric Freshener and a $3,000 stipend for a new home office.

Two First Prizes

$7,000 grant, a Whirlpool Gold® PowerScour™ dishwasher and a Whirlpool Duet Sport™ washer and dryer pair.

Two Second Prizes

$5,000 grant and a Whirlpool Duet Sport™ washer and dryer pair.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to get their idea made into reality, imagine seeing an idea develop into a business, service or product, right before your very eyes.

Source [Home Office Women]

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